At 04:34 PM 17/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm using Firebird 1.5 RC9 embedded.
>I get the following error when I try to insert a row in my (still...)
>empty database (using JDBC).
>
>Implementation of text subtype 21 not located.
>
>I red that this should indicate that ISO8859_1 is missing in my
>installation, but issuing
>
>SELECT RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME, RDB$CHARACTER_SET_ID
>FROM RDB$CHARACTER_SETS
>ORDER BY RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME
>
>I can see it is there.
>What could be the cause...?

I suspect that it's nothing to do with blob types at all, but a different
exception altogether, combined with a missing or wrong firebird.msg. Do
you have the correct msg file in your application root? It should be
located in the directory above Your_App_root\bin.

Helen